Preserving /Home Partition

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: Preserving /Home Partition
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 12:59 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Can I recover the /home dir in the 
> > / partition if I now unmount the /dev/sdb3 /home
> partition?  Only one
> > q-mark-:)  Just curious as the /home partition is
> working ok but wonder
> > if one in / is gone forever.
> 
> Yes, if you unmount the /home partition you can access the
> /home directory 
> of the original installation. Mounting some partition to a
> mount point 
> just hides everything which was previously available at
> that mount point 
> and only for the time it is mounted there. It doesn't
> delete anything.
> 
> 
Thanks for the clarification. You were
really a great help to me in clearing up
my situation. I may even have learned
something new.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net